Vegan India – The best Indian food in Bristol

Located in a beautifully decorated restaurant in Bristol, Vegan India serves the most delicious veganised versions of all of your favourite Indian dishes. We’re talking naan bread, chicken tikka masala & mango lassi – absolutely dreamy!!

There is so much to choose from, you could eat there every week and try something new, but here is everything we decided to order:

  • Onion bhajis – absolute perfection
  • Aubergine and cauliflower pakora – loved them both but cauliflower was our favourite
  • Tandoori mixed grill – perfect level of spice and such a great mix of vegan meats & veggies
  • Railway lamb curry – the “lamb” was delicious but curry a little too spicy for me
  • Chicken tikka masala – absolutely amazing, so creamy & delicious
  • Garlic chilli masala prawns – if you like spice, this is the dish for you – it is fiery
  • Alo gobi – a classic favourite
  • Garlic rice & special rice – both great but we adored the garlic rice
  • Garlic naan – absolutely amazing, the main thing I miss ordering as it’s often not vegan
  • Masala chips – perfect side dish
  • Mango lassi – so creamy and flavourful, the best dessert

Have you ever seen a more perfect plate?!

After enjoying the most incredible meal, we finished with delicious, creamy Mango Lassis. I’m so envious of our friends who we visited with, as they live in Bristol (at Karen’s Kind animal sanctuary) so order from Vegan India frequently!

If you live in Bristol or are visiting, I cannot recommend Vegan India enough. It’s the perfect example of why there is absolutely no need to eat animals to enjoy delicious food. I cannot wait for our next visit.

*This meal was kindly gifted, all opinions expressed are my own and I have paid to eat here before.

Vegan banana & coconut pancakes with chocolate sauce

Whenever I find a new vegan product/brand/restaurant/anything that I love, I always like to share it with you guys on the blog, as I love reading blogs to discover new products to use and places to eat. One awesome brand I recently discovered is Ecomil.

Ecomil sells organic, vegan products including a range of delicious plant-based milks; they kindly offered to send me some of their products to try and I have become obsessed with the coconut milk! I have been having it in my morning smoothies and the coconut/banana/pineapple combo has been making it feel like I’m having a Pina Colada for breakfast every day! I’ll make sure to put a recipe up for the smoothie next week as it’s seriously so good and I think you guys are going to love it, because, let’s be real, who doesn’t want to have a healthy, delicious version of their favourite cocktail for breakfast?!

As a big fan of Ecomil’s coconut milk, I was excited when they asked if I’d like to collaborate with them and use their products to create a delicious vegan recipe for their website. I used the coconut milk to whip up these super simple and insanely delicious chunky banana & coconut pancakes with chocolate sauce!

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If you’d like to make these pancakes, you can find the recipe on the Ecomil website under the vegan recipe section here.

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Aaaand if you’re a fan of pina coladas, be sure to look out for my healthy pina colada smoothie recipe coming to the blog next week!

 

Cookies and nice cream sandwich recipe (vegan & delicious)

Ever since Matt and I first tried the cookies and ice-cream sandwich at Manna on my birthday last year, I have wanted to recreate my own version of this delicious dessert! Half a year later and I have finally gotten around to it (oops!) but it was definitely worth the wait, and I’m sure you all are gonna love this chocolate and banana nicecream sandwich as much as I do.

As this is such an incredible dessert, I decided that as well as sharing it on the blog, I would film it for my youtube channel. This is the first of many recipes I’ll be sharing on Youtube so I’d love to hear your feedback and if you have any requests for what you’d like me to film next!

cookies and nice cream recipe

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup non-dairy margarine
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tea spoon baking soda
  • 3 cups oatmeal
  • 1/4 cup cacao powder

Nicecream

  • 4 ripe bananas

 Cooking instructions

  • Cut bananas into small chunks & freeze for at least 2.5 hours
  • Preheat the oven to 250°c
  • Mix together the sugar and margarine until smooth
  • Add in the almond milk and stir until the milk has combined with the mixture
  • Add in the flour and baking soda and stir until well mixed
  • Add in the oatmeal and cacao powder and stir
  • Shape into small circles and place on baking paper
  • Smooth circles down before placing in the oven for 10 minutes
  • Remove cookies from oven and flatten before coking for further 5 minutes
  • Leave cookies to cool  for 1 hour
  • Blend frozen bananas until smooth
  • Spoon 1/2 the blended nice cream onto cookies and freeze for 1 hour
  • Spoon remaining 1/2 of blended nice cream into yorkshire pudding style tray and freeze for 1 hour
  • Remove all components from freezer and sandwich nice cream between 2 cookies
  • ENJOY!